Zeigt Titel in Psychologie

Die Malerin Sophie verbringt den Sommer mit drei Freundinnen auf der griechischen Insel Sifnos. Sophie genießt die trägen Tage in der Sommerhitze – und die Auszeit von ihrem Freund Greg, der sie mit seinem Kinderwunsch unter Druck setzt. Jeden Morgen geht sie zum Schwimmen runter ans Meer und begegnet dort dem Griechen Ky. Eine intensive Affäre beginnt, in der Sophie sich immer mehr verliert. Unterdessen arbeitet Sophie an einem Aktporträt ihrer Freundin Alessia, doch zwischen den beiden Frauen entstehen Unstimmigkeiten, die sich von Tag zu Tag intensivieren.

A literary mystery novel set in the small town of Hawthorne, where a mysterious confession reveals that an innocent man was imprisoned for a fire he did not commit. When Ruby receives an anonymous letter, she is drawn into a web of family loyalty, hidden evidence, and ten years of carefully guarded secrets. Themes include truth, justice, guilt, redemption, and the destructive power of silence. Suitable for general adult collections and book clubs focused on psychological mysteries and contemporary literary fiction.

Miriam Voss runs a quiet antiquarian bookshop in Harwick, where the work is usually simple: assess the books, catalogue them, and send them on to their next reader. Then the Haar estate arrives. Three hundred and eighty-seven volumes from the private library of the late neurologist Clement Haar. Most are ordinary enough—serious books, carefully read, densely annotated. But twenty-two of them contain something else. A second hand in the margins. For thirty years, someone answered Haar’s arguments. Corrected his readings. Challenged his conclusions.

Tessa, K. Prater and Salodius Byrd's debut novel, was inspired by an actual person, Tessa Marie Horan. Tessa, raised in an unconventional family from the western United States, plans a journey to India and Nepal in search of spiritual and moral discipline after she completes her high school education. A few months before she departs, her brother experiences a life-changing injury that leaves him a paraplegic. The tone is set to weigh all the parts of her life as she is torn between Buddhist and familial obligation and devotion.

Five strangers. One cure. And a nightmare none of them saw coming. Audrey’s done being a lab rat. Years of doctors, pills, and promises—and still, her body’s a prison. So when an envelope shows up offering a last-ditch shot at healing her chronic pain, she takes it. No questions asked. What’s the worst that could happen? She’s not the only one clinging to hope. Four others arrive at the remote forest sanctuary, each battling their own private hell. The place is quiet, peaceful. The results? Instant. Miraculous. Too good to be true? Of course it is.

The past collides with the present as Brendan O'Shay, a high-powered Wall Street trader, is forced to confront a haunting legacy. When his estranged sister Cassie dies unexpectedly, Brendan inherits a life-altering secret: he is now the custodian of her frozen eggs. This discovery thrusts him, his wife Laura, and their son Shannon into a whirlwind of emotional and ethical dilemmas. Set against the backdrop of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis, Brendan struggles with existential crises at work and home as he grapples with the possibility of bringing a part of Cassie back to life.

A poetic reimagining of Ibsen's classic, told as Peer's own haunting confession. Ten chapters trace a lifetime of lies, love, loss, and longing, set to a cinematic neoclassical score inspired by Iceland's stark beauty.

The New York Times bestseller Having nothing left to lose changes everything. Todd and Jodie have been together for more than twenty years. They are both aware their world is in crisis, though neither is willing to admit it. Todd is living a dual existence, while Jodie is living in denial. But...

A vital, tender, death-haunted work by one of Ireland's most important contemporary writers, Solar Bones is a celebration of the unexpected beauty of life and of language, and our inescapable nearness to our last end. It is All Souls Day, and the spirit of Marcus Conway sits at his kitchen table...

Die wahre Freiheit steckt in dir Eine Frau, Ende 30, führt ein ganz normales Leben, als sie ganz plötzlich eine Panikattacke im Zug erleidet. Auf einmal ist die Angst allgegenwärtig: überfällt sie im Supermarkt, auf der Autobahn, während der Arbeit und im Restaurant. Mit Hilfe einer Therapie erkennt sie, dass sie viel zu lange wichtige Entscheidungen vermieden hat. Nach und nach lernt sie, ihre alten Muster zu durchbrechen, für sich und ihre Überzeugungen einzustehen.

It has been two years since the events in Shantaram, and since Lin lost two people he had come to love: his father figure, Khaderbhai, and his soul mate, Karla, married to a handsome Indian media tycoon. Lin returns from a smuggling trip to a city that seems to have changed too much, too soon. Many of his old friends are long gone, the new mafia leadership has become entangled in increasingly violent and dangerous intrigues, and a fabled holy man challenges everything that Lin thought he'd learned about love and life.

The murder of brutal landowner Fyodor Karamazov changes the lives of his sons irrevocably: Mitya, the sensualist, whose bitter rivalry with his father immediately places him under suspicion for parricide; Ivan, the intellectual, driven to breakdown; the spiritual Alyosha, who tries to heal the family's rifts; and the shadowy figure of their bastard half-brother, Smerdyakov. Dostoyevsky's dark masterwork evokes a world where the lines between innocence and corruption, good and evil, blur and everyone's faith in humanity is tested.

The Woman in the Dunes, by celebrated writer and thinker Kobo Abe, combines the essence of myth, suspense and the existential novel. After missing the last bus home following a day trip to the seashore, an amateur entomologist is offered lodging for the night at the bottom of a vast sand pit...

Livius Reimer macht sich auf den Weg von München nach Berlin, um seine Ehe zu retten. Als sein Flug gestrichen wird, muss er sich den einzig noch verfügbaren Mietwagen mit einer jungen Frau teilen, um die er sonst einen großen Bogen gemacht hätte. Zu schräg, zu laut, zu ungewöhnlich – mit ihrer unkonventionellen Sicht auf die Welt überfordert Lea von Armin Livius von der ersten Sekunde an.

Vito will raus, raus aus seiner arschkalten Wohnung in Kreuzberg. Was mit einem Kater beginnt, entpuppt sich zwischen Ladendiebstahl und Mut anküssen als schonungslose Suche nach den Wurzeln seiner Einsamkeit. Anton Weil erzählt von den großen Themen seiner Generation: von Vereinzelung, Sexualität und Liebe, von Trauer und Aufbruch.

Sie dachten, sie könnten ihn kontrollieren. Aber sie irrten sich. Francis Ackerman Jr. ist einer der gefürchtetsten Serienkiller in der Geschichte der USA. Aber er ist nicht nur ein Serienkiller, er ist auch ein Serienausbrecher. Als ein Arzt, der eine bahnbrechende Behandlung für Psychopathen entdeckt hat, seine Theorien an Ackerman testen will, sieht der Killer seine Chance auf Freiheit..

We've won a multi-million-pound house in the Cotswolds. It's a dream come true. But the nightmare is just beginning. The threats start immediately. The day we move in, the woman next door comes over, with a bottle of red wine. Then I get a message congratulating me... and saying they know about what happened sixteen years ago. The mistake that ruined everything. And things are about to get even worse.

Ein angesehener, freundlicher Herr, Doktor der Medizin, erschlägt nach vierzig Ehejahren seine Frau mit einer Axt. Er zerlegt sie, bevor er schließlich die Polizei informiert. Sein Geständnis ist ebenso außergewöhnlich wie seine Strafe ... Ein Mann raubt eine Bank aus, und so unglaublich das klingt: Er hat gute Gründe. Gegen jede Wahrscheinlichkeit wird er von der Justiz gerettet ... Eine junge Frau tötet ihren Bruder. Aus Liebe.

Eve has a good life. She wakes up each day, kisses her husband Nate, and heads off to teach math at the local high school. All is as it should be. Except… Last year, Caseham High was rocked by a scandal involving a student-teacher affair, with one student, Addie, at its center. But Eve knows there is far more to these ugly rumors than meets the eye. Addie can’t be trusted. She lies. She hurts people. She destroys lives. At least, that’s what everyone says. But nobody knows the real Addie. Nobody knows the secrets that could destroy her. And Addie will do anything to keep it quiet…

The New York Times bestselling novel from Dennis Lehane is a gripping, unnerving psychological thriller about the effects of a savage killing on three former friends in a tightly knit, blue-collar Boston neighborhood. When they were children, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus, and Dave Boyle were...